On Wed, 09 Oct 1996 09:49:15 +0100, Ross wrote in reply to my original
posting:
JF
>> What I would need to be able to do is submit a request to the
>> directory service with some reasonably uniquely identifying attribute
>> of my patient (New NHS Number ?), and receive back a list of the
>> locations where record fragments for that individual are stored
RA
>The Administrative Registers are supposed to do something like this.
Indeed
RA
>The problem of course is that you might not want an attendance at a
>GUM clinic to become widely known. Come to think of it, if you're
>the French president you wouldn't want an attendance at an oncology
>clinic to become known
A point which I had acknowledged in two bits of my original post which
read
JF
>What I would need to be able to do is submit a request to the
>directory service with some reasonably uniquely identifying attribute
>of my patient (New NHS Number ?), and receive back a list of the
>locations where record fragments for that individual are stored,
>as long as I had permission to do this
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{Last line got 'snipped' in Ross's quoteback}
and
>Another feature would need to be that if a patient doesn't even want
>it known that there is any information about them stored at location
>X, then the local clinician at X simply doesn't tell the
>directory/search engine.
So if I were a clinican at a GUM clinic my "default" position might be
not to tell except where patient expressely wanted me to
and if I were" le president de France" then I would say to my
clinican, "n' placez pas mon nom dans les engines de search (or
registrar administrative)"
(profuse apologies to Patrick and others... )
So does that address (at this "conceptual level") the problem
referred to in Ross's point or is there something else in here ?
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